St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-02

OoF. RiCE Is the social light or the present
administration. Once or twice this year we
have heard of Gov. MoGILL making a speech
at pumpkin show or leading feeble charge
IN sham battle between boys. But it is
L1eut.-Goy. RICE who speaks at the great
municipal banquets, who goes to the centen-
NAL OF the constitution to represent Mime
sofa, who receives the gold. headed canes and
feasts on champagne and oysters. 1t may be
that this viking from Kandiyohi has deeper
amplt1ons than being social fgure-head.
But just at present he is getting more of the
good things of life than his chief does.
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STANFORD Newell has habit Of disappear
Ing from his Office for two or three days at a
time, leaving a card on the door on which is
written, for the consolation of those who
climb two flights of stairs, when he will be
back. Last week he went away after writing
on the card: 'Will be back Wednesday" On
Tuesday friend after toiling up the long
winding stairs, discovered the card. and after
getting his wind wrote underneath it: This
is all very WELL but please be more definite
Is it Wednesday in future or the Wednesday
almost in presenti?''
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On what was formerly the old Winnebago
Indian agency in this state, farms are now
laid out, and village called st. Claire has
sprung up. In this village there is hotel
keeper who is a Frenchman, and who has
displayed in his house one of the most orig
inal public notices ever read. Lquote as it
is printed:
Warning is Hereby Given
That Boys, Spectators and
Buns will please take
walk unless you have
particular business By order
of Proprietor.
To All Remember
Hotel bills shall be Paid
in advance.
No Money
No Stay"
notice that EDGAR L. WAKEMAN In late
letter to a st. Louis paper, and from Mime
sofa, passes severe Judgment upon the char
acteristics of the village of Hastings. This
is unkind of Mr.. WAKEMAN, since it was from
there that in romantic fashion he took his
wife and with her finally entered the literary
circles of Chicago. She was ANToINKTTE VAN
HoEsEN, and as good a little woman
as the Almighty generally makes. Aside
= from the literary work which she did for
the Current she was bright business woman
and established in Chicago factory of some
sort that proved very successful. Why she ever
applied for and secured a divorce from her
husband is not generally known. WAkEMAN
disappeared mysteriously, the Current began
to fail. ana when he reappeared in the world
of letters his wife had resumed her maiden
name. He has been rusticating this summer
in Minnesota country towns and writing his
letters from the unknown and unheard of
county of ''Sauk."
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have new story on BILL ME. If 1t has
ever been published would like the oldest
inhabitant to rise up and say when and
where 1t was at the time that BILLS leg
was broken in the Clear Lake cyclone. While
the limb was healing one of the preparations
put upon it was a certain liniment One day
the minister called, to find Mrs. NYE busily
engaged in securing the front windows with
the liniment. When he got inside he found
BILL convulsed with laughter at his wife's
having mistaken his medicine for a patent
stuff used for securing windows 1t is told
of the gentle WILLIAM that last summer when
he drew his first weekly wages from the New
York World (S1OO) he sentit back to Hudson
to his wife to keep as memento of his new
fortune.
Chief BLACK has introduced into the St.
Paul fire department new system for test
ing the strength and capabilities of appli-
cants for positions. When he is ready to
pass upon their merits he has them call on
him at Central fire hall. In front Of the hall
he has the great extension ladder raised, at
first straight in the air, and then against the
flagstaff. He then sends the applicants, one
by one, up this ladder and over it and down
the other side. Then he sends them I'D the
front of the building on pompier ladders and
down again, and by the time they are through
with that he knows how good their wind is
and whether they are weak or not in the
knees. The applicants as a rule don't like
the test. A climb of eighty-five feet into the
air and up a perpendicular ladder is not the
easiest thing to do when the joints are stiff.
The chief says, though, that it weeds out in
competent applicants very satisfactorily.
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Ex-Warden REEDS friends in the Southern
Minnesota valley refuse to take any stock in
the charges made against him. They believe
him to be innocent and think that the case is
one of spite work. In the Fifth district the
friends of Warden SToRDocK are out in a
strong defense of him, claiming that he has
only done his duty in the matter. The south
ern element think SToRDoCK ought to
be removed. The northern element
dare the governor to do it. AS q matter of
TIC SONCInOI ustIc HOJ TtluONG ulul. Inc
act would almost double the enemies that
his administration has already to encounter.
There are two rumors af1oat as to the report
to be presented by the investigating commit
tee this month. One is that it will exonerate
REED. That is doubtful. The other reports
that he will be exonerated of the charges
made by the women, but will be condemned
as careless in his financial management of
the prison. II either of these rumors prove
true, ex-Warden REED may be thankful.
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Among the curious specimens of young at
torneys to be found in st. Paul. 1 have dis
covered one who is daft on the subject of
hygiene. can best describe his form of in
sanity by telling of how he retires at night
Until the moment of going to bed he keeps
his small room heated to a temperature of
900. He removes all of his clothing and
dons a gauze night shirt. Then when ready
to plunge under the two light covers on his
bed, he hoists his window as high as it will
go. That window is raised every night,
whether it is 40 . below or not. He insists,
though he croaks with a cold most of the
winter, that this is hygiene. By Fool.
OCTOBER.
October is the month that seems
All woven with midsummer dreams:
She brings for uS the p0lfpo dave